Preventing page corruption
Database corruption is a major concern, since in a worst case scenario we may lose valuable customer related data. It is also a painful job, to recover the corrupted disk or restore the data from previous backups. Database corruption can happen due to the following reasons:
- Bad hardware
- Bug in database software
- Bug in a kernel
- Bad database configuration
As like other database management systems, PostgreSQL also provides few configuration settings, which will try to avoid the page corruption. If page corruption happens at disk level, then PostgreSQL has the ability to bypass the corrupted data, and return the uncorrupted data.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we will be discussing how to enable the checksums for each data block, ...
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